Revision of the Agrilus vittatus species-group (Coleoptera, Buprestidae, Agrilinae)
Author
Jendek, Eduard
Author
Nakládal, Oto
text
Zootaxa
2019
2019-07-04
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Agrilus coco
sp.nov.
(
Fig. 1F
,
3E
)
Description of
holotype
.
Size:
6.3 mm
. Head and pronotum golden-green; elytra olivaceous-green; eyes about as width as vertex (dorsal view); frons golden-green; pronotum widest at anterior margin, anterior pronotal lobe absent; each elytron with distinct perisutural, pubescent stripe; elytral apices subangulate; prosternal lobe large and arcuate, with very feeble arcuate emargination at middle; metasternal projection distinctly impressed.
Variability.
The species is known only from the male
holotype
.
Diagnosis.
The species is distinctive by the larger size; subangulate elytral apices and by the peculiar aedeagus with membranous sensory zones of parameres sinuately emarginate (
Fig. 3E
).
Type
material.
Type
locality:
Philippines
,
Mindoro Isl.
,
Coco Beach
,
13°31’22”N
,
120°57’54”E
.
Type specimens.
Holotype
♂
(
EJCB
): “
Philippines
,
Mindoro Isl.
,
Coco Beach
, ex larva,
13°31’22”N
,
120°57’54”E
,
6.3.2016
, lgt.
L. Karaus
”.
Distribution.
PHILIPPINES
: Mindoro Island.
Host plant.
Unknown.
Etymology.
The specific name (noun in apposition) refers to the Coco Beach where the
holotype
was collected.